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NYLUG will meet Wednesday 17 September 2003 in the IBM building at 57th Street
and Madison Avenue on the Island of the Manahattoes.

You must register in advance to attend, or have registered for an earlier
NYLUG meeting in the IBM building. Particulars below in official
announcement.

After the formal meeting tribesfolk will gather to eat and drink together.

For full and exact information see the Official NYLUG Announcement below.

Jay Sulzberger
Corresponding Secretary LXNY
LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization.
http://www.lxny.org


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Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 09:45:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: John Bacalle
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To: NYLUG Announcements
Subject: [nylug-announce] TOMORROW! NY Linux Users Grp. 17 September
Meeting: AMD/Opteron: Why on Linux + Ramifications for Mission Critical
Computing

September 17th, 2003
Wednesday
6:30pm-8:00pm
IBM Headquarters Building
590 Madison Avenue at 57th Street
9th Floor, home to the IBM Linux Center of Competency

** RSVP Instructions **
Unless you have already rsvp'ed for a prior meeting, everyone
should RSVP to attend. http://rsvp.nylug.org
Check in with photo ID at the lobby for badge and room number.

** Stammtisch **
Note the PERMANENT location of Stammtisch. See below for details.


David Rich (Advanced Micro Devices)
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AMD/Opteron: Why on Linux + Ramifications for Mission Critical Computing


David Rich, Advanced Micro Devices HPC Design Center director, will
describe how Linux has evolved from a technology running on low cost
PCs to the operating system of choice for large parallel clusters. A
trend fueled by the omnipresent availability of x86 platform products,
of all stripes, the humble, the thoroughbred; and the continued
evolution from vanilla 32-bit PCs to 32-bit servers and now to 64-bit
computing products.

David will make the case for Linux in a number of very large cluster
rollouts (greater than 1,000 processors). Further, the use of Linux in
these clusters has uncovered deficiencies in the software stack which
are being addressed and solved. The availability of these solutions
will continue to positively impact the viability of Linux for the
enterprise, we will broach this as well.

Special bonus! Dr. Tom Bradicich, Distingushed Engineer from IBM, will
discuss IBM's new Opteron-based server, the e325. IBM is the only tier
one vendor to sell a product using AMD technology and should make for
some interesting Q&A. Bring your X-bit MMU queries, your `Ultrasparc
III slayer' budget questions, etc. Please join us.

Note, in October Sam Hiser will present to NYLUG on the Open Office
project.

For More Information Visit:

* Advanced Micro Devices
http://www.amd.com/us-en/
* Linux Journal Opteron writeup
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6711

About David Rich:

AMD Director of the HPC Design Center, Foxboro, MA.

Free Stuff!
Swag of undetermined value and quantity may be distributed on a
first-come, first-served basis. Arrive early for the best selection.

Keysignings
GPG cryptography. Immediately after the presentation and continuing
at Stammtisch we will be gathering for a keysigning. For those who
already have keys, please remember to bring paper printouts of your
40-character key fingerprint, as per the instructions in our howto
docs. If you haven't created a key yet, and for keysigning details,
our howto docs are a must read. http://www.nylug.org/keys

Stammtisch
** Note the PERMANENT location ** <<------<<<<<
After the meeting ... Join us around 8:30pm or so at TGI Friday,
located at 677 Lexington Avenue and 56th Street, second floor.
Northeast corner.

Please see our home page at http://www.nylug.org for the HTMLized
version of this announcement, our archives, and a lot of other good
stuff.

Monthly Reminder!
Please read the NYLUG-Talk Posting Guidelines at:
http://www.nylug.org/mlistguide/

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September 2003 - The New York Linux Users Group, NYLUG.org
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